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East Melbourne, Hoddle Street 1081, Ascot - fire

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Newspaper clipping reporting a suspiscious fire that occured at a property in East Melbourne.  The address is not given but the property was Ascot, 1081 Hoddle Street, East Melbourne.  The property had recently been the site of a planning application for a mult-storey building.  

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East Melbourne, Lansdowne Street 019 - Fire

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Newspaper clipping about a suspicious fire at the office of solicitor, Stephen Andrianakis, 19 Lansdowne Street, East Melbourne.

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East Melbourne, Simpson Street 167, 169

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A pair of single storey, single fronted cottages.  The facades have been modernised, with a window exchanged for french doors in one, and the lace-work trim to the verandah removed in the other. The parapet has an unusual undulating form, with small masks placed in each dip. The chimneys too, are of unusual form.  The caps may have been replaced.

History: 

These two houses, were built by Walter Fortune for Paul Francis Costelloe, real estate agent, in 1871.  Costelloe, himself, advertised: 

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Holy Trinity Church - after the 1905 fire

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The original bluestone church, completed in 1864, was situated near the corner of George and Clarendon Streets. On New Year’s Day 1905 the church was completely gutted by fire.

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